Leading Email Infrastructure Company Adds Expertise and Leadership with New Senior Vice President, Worldwide Sales

Broomfield, CO -- (ReleaseWire) -- 10/23/2007 -- ColdSpark™ (www.coldspark.com), the leader in next-generation enterprise messaging infrastructure, announced the appointment of Don Gammon as senior vice president of worldwide sales.

Mr. Gammon joins ColdSpark with 30 years of sales, marketing and general management experience. Mr. Gammon will be responsible for building and managing ColdSpark's high-performance global sales team and driving the organization's growth strategy.

"ColdSpark offers unparalleled solutions in an area of high demand – email and messaging systems for the enterprise," said Kelly Wanser, CEO of ColdSpark. "ColdSpark sought a sales leader with the proven ability to build an enterprise sales organization, and the deep industry knowledge to ensure that we partner with our customers in using messaging to enable their businesses. Don is a powerhouse addition to a strong team."

Mr. Gammon specializes in building commercial capabilities for emerging enterprise software companies. He came to ColdSpark from Valchemy where, prior to the acquisition by IBM, he served as the vice president of sales. After IBM acquired Valchemy, Mr. Gammon was appointed CEO and managed the transition and integration process. Previously, Mr. Gammon was Senior Vice President at Tumbleweed Communications, where his duties were to build the sales presences from early start-up through several acquisitions. Additional senior management roles include positions at companies such as ClearSwift, Composite Software, and Interactive Systems.

"ColdSpark has the right solutions at the right time for the enterprise," said Mr. Gammon, "and an exceptional customer base, industry-leading technology and talented team. I look forward to capitalizing on ColdSpark's success in the enterprise market and fueling its growth."

Mr. Gammon's appointment is in conjunction with a period of rapid growth and strong demand in the US enterprise market.

ABOUT COLDSPARK, INC.
ColdSpark is the leading provider of enterprise email infrastructure solutions and platforms. ColdSpark helps the world's most demanding companies increase the power of their email to drive revenue, deepen customer relationships and improve business efficiency, while ensuring security, compliance and performance. ColdSpark replaces widely used legacy technology with solutions based on the patent-pending SparkEngine™ Mail Transport Platform, a powerful new software platform for delivering, processing and managing email. Founded in 2001 by email technology veterans, ColdSpark's customers include Fidelity, General Motors, JP Morgan Chase, Lehman Brothers, Washington Mutual and Equifax.

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The service-oriented platform introduces new policy capabilities and significantly improves the flexibility of enterprise email networks.

Broomfield, CO -- (ReleaseWire) -- 07/13/2007 -- ColdSpark™ (http://www.coldspark.com), the leader in next-generation enterprise email infrastructure, today announced the availability of the SparkEngine™ Mail Transport Platform 6.0., a significant advance in the modernization of enterprise email networks. The latest version of the company's award-winning email platform unifies email (SMTP) processes onto a single high-performance environment that supports the security, compliance, business automation and operational requirements of large enterprises. The SparkEngine replaces outmoded legacy technology currently deployed throughout enterprise networks with capabilities that cannot be met with traditional open source email infrastructure, email appliances or point products for security or compliance.

"SparkEngine 6.0 provides enterprises with new levels of functional and operational capabilities to meet critical security, compliance, operations and business email requirements," said Michael Osterman, founder of Osterman Research. "In the coming year we'll see large enterprise networks begin to transition away from hardware-intensive point solutions toward intelligent, unified email infrastructure platforms that can better meet these ever-changing needs."

The SparkEngine enables enterprise IT administrators to create a unified email environment viewable through a single console with advanced monitoring, management and service provisioning options. This is powered by the SparkEngine's service-oriented architecture (SOA) for email, or Service-Oriented Email Networking. The platform helps some of the world's largest and most complex organizations take a strategic approach to implementing email management, such as creating prioritized message flow based on business needs, or dispensing specific policies or services on specific email traffic. The SparkEngine is capable of delivering 5-10 million emails per hour on generic hardware while supporting a true high-availability architecture.

Enhancements in SparkEngine 6.0 include:

• Advanced policy capabilities – The SparkEngine 6.0 contains native policy capabilities and can leverage and unify policies from attached systems and apply them to mail traffic. These policy capabilities support solutions for everything from customized footers to flagging mail that includes personally identifiable information.
• Virtual "lanes of traffic" – The SparkEngine 6.0 distinguishes between different types of email traffic — by origin, by destination or by other criteria — to allow for the creation of virtual traffic environments on which different policies, services and service levels can be applied.
• Increased network visibility – The SparkEngine 6.0 management console (SparkAdmin) allows administrators to manage their email environments from a single, feature-rich console interface, providing greater insight into the network, better control and more customization capabilities. This enables administrators to add new functionality or make changes to the email network from one centralized location, rather than having to update individual network appliances.
• Improved service management – The platform's SOA approach to messaging allows users to dispense policies on specific messages and bill the cost back to the relevant business unit, thereby enabling enterprises to act as their own service providers.

"Today's large enterprises recognize the need to upgrade legacy email network infrastructure to save money, reduce risk, drive revenue and support a broad and dynamic set of requirements," said Kelly Wanser, CEO of ColdSpark. "SparkEngine 6.0 provides the most comprehensive and advanced set of award-winning features and capabilities for the enterprise email network backbone."

Availability & Pricing
The SparkEngine Mail Transport Platform 6.0 is available immediately. Pricing for the software begins at USD $42,500. More information can be found at www.coldspark.com or by contacting ColdSpark (info@coldspark.com, 303.962.7800).

About ColdSpark
ColdSpark has created the next generation of enterprise email infrastructure, based on the award-winning SparkEngine™ Mail Transport Platform (MTP), a new type of message platform for mail networks. The patent-pending SparkEngine provides the foundation for ColdSpark's suite of advanced email, security, compliance and customer care solutions, designed to solve the challenges facing enterprises in the capabilities, management and performance of email for critical business operations. Founded in 2001 by email technology veterans, ColdSpark's customers include Bear Stearns, Equifax, JP Morgan Chase, Lehman Brothers, and Washington Mutual.

ColdSpark and SparkEngine are trademarks of ColdSpark, Inc. All other trademarks referenced in this release are the property of their respective owners and are hereby acknowledged.

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SparkEngine Mail Transport Platform Honored as Transformative Email Infrastructure Solution for the Financial Services Industry

Broomfield, CO -- (ReleaseWire) -- 06/15/2007 -- ColdSpark (http://www.coldspark.com), the leader in next-generation enterprise email infrastructure, today announced that it has received the Architecture Project of the Year award from The Banker Technology Awards for the various deployments of the SparkEngine Mail Transport Platform. The Banker Technology Awards recognize innovation and success in financial services technology, highlighting solutions and products that have made an impact on the industry during the past year. ColdSpark was recognized for successfully replacing legacy email network systems at leading financial services organizations with a powerful, open platform for intelligent mail networking, the SparkEngine™ Mail Transport Platform.

"Because financial services organizations are among the most regulated enterprises in the world, particularly in regards to email, they require highly sophisticated messaging infrastructures that are flexible enough to accommodate current and future compliance, policy and security requirements," said Neil Tyler, The Banker editor. "ColdSpark's technology significantly improves messaging functionality and efficiency for financial services firms. We applaud ColdSpark's work with these firms."

ColdSpark's customers, the world's leading financial management and advisory companies, require an email platform that enables a broad array of services, enhances policy and compliance and supports state-of-the-art enterprise management to ensure optimum system operation. They turn to ColdSpark to upgrade email backbone infrastructure across their entire organization with the SparkEngine.

The SparkEngine platform helps some of the world's largest and most complex organizations realize the full potential of a comprehensive email strategy while maximizing ROI on messaging operations. The platform replaces multiple point products, legacy email delivery applications and stand-alone appliances with a unified framework for email networking, modernizing email operations to support today's requirements for security, compliance, business automation and performance.

"This award is not only a testament to the strength of the SparkEngine platform, but also further evidence of the need for intelligent, scalable email platforms within the financial services industry," said Kelly Wanser, Coldpark CEO. "In the coming year, we'll see more enterprises follow the lead of financial services firms and move away from outdated and fragmented email systems. Flexible and intelligent platforms like the SparkEngine can expand business capabilities, meet compliance requirements, streamline processes and simplify network management."

About The Banker

The Banker is a publication of Financial Times Business, a part of the Financial Times and Pearson Plc. Established in 1926, The Banker provides global financial intelligence to the international banking and finance community. Published monthly, each issue delivers news and opinion on the latest developments in both the retail and investment banking sectors. With regular software and technology updates, new product innovations, country profiles and expert market commentary from leading industry figures, The Banker is essential reading for all banking and finance professionals.

About ColdSpark

ColdSpark has created the next generation of enterprise email infrastructure, based on the SparkEngine™ Mail Transport Platform (MTP), a new type of message platform for mail networks. The patent-pending SparkEngine provides the foundation for ColdSpark's suite of advanced email, security, compliance and customer care solutions, designed to solve the challenges facing enterprises in the capabilities, management and performance of email for critical business operations. Founded in 2001 by email technology veterans, ColdSpark's customers include Bear Stearns, Equifax, JP Morgan Chase, Lehman Brothers, and Washington Mutual.

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Sterling Communications, Inc.
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206-388-5763

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Legacy open-source email infrastructure can no longer meet the demands of large enterprise email networks

Broomfield, CO -- (ReleaseWire) -- 03/16/2007 -- ColdSpark™ (http://www.coldspark.com), the leader in next-generation enterprise messaging infrastructure, today announced an upgrade campaign focused on enterprise deployments of legacy open-source mail transport agents (MTAs). In conjunction with this campaign, ColdSpark also made available a white paper that details why an enterprise should upgrade its legacy email infrastructure technology with ColdSpark's SparkEngine™ Mail Transport Platform.

Legacy open-source email network applications and mail transport agents, such as Sendmail and Postfix, are among the most widely deployed applications in history. Given the demands placed on them by increased email volumes, security threats, compliance necessities, management requirements and operating performance, these traditional systems are becoming less efficient and more expensive to maintain.

"Today's enterprises use email to run their businesses, yet their email network infrastructure is often significantly less advanced, scalable, or reliable than other business systems," explained Kelly Wanser, CEO of ColdSpark. "Our customers are modernizing their mail networks to ensure they can meet all of their requirements – now and in the future - while simultaneously leveraging email as a strategic asset across their businesses. The adoption of the SparkEngine by the operators of the world's largest mail networks, including top financial institutions, indicates the importance of a new approach and the power of the platform approach to enterprise email infrastructure."

The SparkEngine platform replaces legacy MTA systems with a powerful, flexible software-based mail transport platform (MTP). The platform offers an array of functionality and capabilities to support new requirements and improve architecture and management models. Key functionalities include inbound and outbound message delivery, internal message routing, policy-based processing, security, authentication, encryption, failure-processing, delivery optimization, advanced traffic management and logging and, most importantly, the ability to readily integrate applications and services onto the email network infrastructure.

"The SparkEngine is the evolution of email network technology to something truly enterprise-class," said Scott Brown, CTO of ColdSpark. "It corrects a number of the deficiencies of legacy MTAs and, most importantly, offers an open API architecture that supports a services-oriented architecture (SOA) for SMTP operations. This enables the consolidation and streamlining of email networks even as services, such as archiving, policy-scanning, encryption, to the organization can be expanded and differentiated across business units."

The SparkEngine platform allows customers to:

• Intelligently process, route and deliver email rapidly, efficiently and successfully;
• Average a replacement ratio of one SparkEngine for every seven legacy MTAs, dramatically reducing hardware and energy costs;
• Optimize compliance with industry regulations and corporate policies;
• Secure the email network perimeter, encrypt message traffic, improve trust for email correspondence and mitigate fraud;
• Expand services by providing an extensible platform that integrates with enterprise business, operations and management applications;
• Improve manageability of the messaging infrastructure by consolidating mail traffic management and control, such as policy and compliance, into one system;
• Maximize ROI by streamlining mail network operations, improving performance and future-proofing the enterprise email infrastructure against future threats and requirements.

The SparkEngine is backward compatible with most Postfix and Sendmail capabilities - including applications based on MILTER - for turn-key upgrade of legacy systems.

For More Information
For more information on how your organization can take advantage of this campaign, please contact ColdSpark at www.coldspark.com/contact. Additionally, ColdSpark has published a new whitepaper, titled Beyond Postfix and Sendmail, which discusses aspects of legacy, open-source email applications that every enterprise should consider. This whitepaper can be downloaded by visiting www.coldspark.com/legacyupgrade.

About ColdSpark, Inc.
ColdSpark has created the next generation of enterprise email infrastructure, based on the SparkEngine™ Mail Transport Platform (MTP), a new type of message platform for mail networks. The patent-pending SparkEngine is the foundation of ColdSpark's suite of advanced email security, compliance and customer care solutions, designed to solve important challenges facing enterprises in the capabilities, management and performance of email for critical business operations. Founded in 2001 by email technology veterans, ColdSpark's customers include Fidelity Investments, JPMorgan Chase, Merrill Lynch, Lehman Brothers, Washington Mutual Bank, Bear Stearns and Equifax.

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Sterling Communications, Inc.
cwarfield@sterlingpr.com
206-388-5758

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